John Dugan
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1799
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1799
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Dugan is a 1799 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny print shows a man’s face in profile, carved in soft dark lines on paper. Mezzotint prints start with a rough metal plate that’s smoothed down to create shades. Here, Saint-Mémin used fine cross-hatching to shape the light on the subject’s coat and skin. It looks like a quick sketch but took hours to carve. Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de
